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I am plain-speaking out of both sides of my mouth.
We may eat dinner together, but everyone puts the food in his own mouth.
The ugly can achieve an absoluteness beyond the reach of beauty.
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The perfect aphorism would achieve classical balance and then immediately upset it.
The Enlightenment needs more shadow; the Romantic Movement less.
Realism absorbs the ideal by adding a few small imperfections. Example: it paints a few specks of mud on the white gown of the Lady in the Garden.
The sorrow of not being movie stars overwhelms millions.
The same old thing--even if it's champagne--is still the same old thing.
If you call failures experiments, you can put them in your resume and claim them as achievements.
To learn a vocation, you also have to learn the frauds it practices and the promises it breaks.
Good places for aphorisms: in fortune cookies, on bumper stickers, and on banners flying over the Palace of Free Advice.
Why is it forbidden in New York to acknowledge the charm and beauty of Los Angeles?
If you should ever acknowledge my existence, I plan to snub you.
Acknowledge your limitations or they will tyrannize over you.
Whatever is spoken of acquires a certain existence.
If success is a habit, it is a hard one to acquire.
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Humor does not rescue us from unhappiness, but enables us to move back from it a little.
